@fence There are entire tv shows dedicated to international ads, intersparsed with national ads. The only possible good thing about ads is if they're entertaining, which they often aren't because that's not the goal.

@wizard@fence Thats probably bad marketing. You dont just place a sign and have people buy your product, there is a psychology behind every ad to make it more noticeable. Thats the reason why ads have become more aggressive over time. And part of the reason why most of us are ignoring it.

@proxeus@wizard tbh, here they have started making ads in the local spoken language instead of regular german... since then I can't take any of those ads seriously and being around a TV while ads are playing is just fucking unbearable

The Idea is probably to speak the same language as you so you consider that product more but... for me it has the opposite effect... also in those ads they always talk like they do in Zürich which sound awful and wouldn't represent most of the country at all....

@fence@proxeus I really don't understand a lot of people. I was raised entire George Carlin "the entire US is just one big shopping mall" idea, but I guess that somehow missed everyone else?

idk I really don't know what I'm seeing different in the world. And it's not even uncommon to hear the world being described as "dystopian" by random people. I guess nobody can agree on what's dystopian about it...